Toy Dissection
What I learnt: The toy dissections quickly taught us how complicated even simple toys actually are. We analyzed a simple pull back car and had a difficult time determining exactly the internal workings. It is amazing that although I have played with this sort of toy hundreds of time, I don't know how it works! A child learns nothing from playing with this toy, to them it is magic. If the manufactures revealed even a tiny part of the inner workings a child could at least begin thinking about how it works. If this were the case the toy's educational value would increase drastically.
created by Mike Stow